INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM
a health care team made up of professionals from different disciplines to provide therapeutic approach to problems and matters. Information…
INTERITEM RELIABILITY
the internal consistency reliability. Indexed 2 ways. 1. Average intercorrelation of objects with each other. 2. Reliability of the mean…
INTERNAL CAPSULE
Band of nerve fibres in the corpus striatum extending between the caudate nucleus and golbus pallidus. Contains fibres from parts…
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED PSYCHOL
Oldest international association of professional psychologists, founded 1920 to promote the science and practice of applied psychology and to facilitate…
INTEROCULAR TRANSFER
The ability of an after effect to be produced by stimulation from one eye but is experienced by looking through…
INTERPERSONAL THEORY
Psychoanalysis. Based on a belief that people's interaction with other people, especially significant others and determines the sense of security,…
INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN
Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured…
INTIMATE ZONE
The small distance zone in social psychology and adopted by those in very close relationships, such of that of mother…
INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS
Certain nuclei located in the medullary lamina and is internal, a layer that is nearly vertical and in the thalamus…
INTRINSIC ACTIVITY
1. Efficacy and the measure of a drug receptor complex and the pharmacological effect it produces. 2. Response to the…
INTROVERSION
Internal private orientation toward the world of ones self and the inner thoughts of ones feelings, rather than towards the…
INVARIANT SEQUENCE
An order that is unchanging and in stage theories of development and in the order in which the stages of…
INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT
A mental facility where an individual is kept against his or her wishes. Individuals are committed in this way, it…
ISOMERIZATION
a switch in the structural order of a molecule without whatever change in its constituent atoms.
ITEM SCALING
the positioning of a test item to scale range on some dimension, often the dimension of difficulty level.